2007 Vuelta a España

The 2007 Vuelta a España, the 62nd edition of the cycle race, took place from 1 September until 23 September 2007. For the first time in a decade, the race started in the region of Galicia, at Vigo, home to Óscar Pereiro, with a flat stage. It was also an unusual Vuelta because the first summit finish came already on the fourth day of racing, with a stage ending atop the famed Lagos de Covadonga. The race was won by Denis Menchov, who also won the Mountains competition and the combined classification, and finished second in the points competition.

2007 Vuelta a España

Overview of the stages
Race details
Dates	1–23 September
Stages	21
Distance	3,241 km (2,014 mi)
Winning time	80h 59' 07"
Results
Winner  Denis Menchov (RUS) (Rabobank)   Second  Carlos Sastre (ESP) (Team CSC)   Third  Samuel Sánchez (ESP) (Euskaltel–Euskadi) Points  Daniele Bennati (ITA) (Lampre–Fondital) Mountains  Denis Menchov (RUS) (Rabobank) Combination  Denis Menchov (RUS) (Rabobank)   Team Caisse d'Epargne
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Participating teams

Main article: List of teams and cyclists in the 2007 Vuelta a España

• Astana ^[1]
• AG2R Prévoyance
• Bouygues Télécom
• Caisse d'Epargne
• Cofidis
• Crédit Agricole
• Discovery Channel
• Euskaltel–Euskadi
• Française des Jeux
• Gerolsteiner
• Lampre–Fondital
• Liquigas
• Predictor–Lotto
• Quick-Step–Innergetic
• Rabobank
• Saunier Duval–Prodir
• T-Mobile Team
• Team CSC
• Team Milram
• Andalucía–CajaSur
• Karpin–Galicia
• Relax–GAM

Route

List of stages^[2][3]

Stage	Date	Course	Distance	Type		Winner
1	1 September	Vigo – Vigo	146.4 km (91 mi)			Daniele Bennati (ITA)
2	2 September	Allariz – Santiago de Compostela	148.7 km (92 mi)			Óscar Freire (ESP)
3	3 September	Viveiro – Luarca	153 km (95 mi)			Paolo Bettini (ITA)
4	4 September	Langreo – Lakes of Covadonga	185.1 km (115 mi)			Vladimir Efimkin (RUS)
5	5 September	Cangas de Onís – Reinosa	157.4 km (98 mi)			Óscar Freire (ESP)
6	6 September	Reinosa – Logroño	184.3 km (115 mi)			Óscar Freire (ESP)
7	7 September	Calahorra – Zaragoza	176.3 km (110 mi)			Erik Zabel (GER)
8	8 September	Cariñena – Zaragoza	52.2 km (32 mi)		Individual time trial	Bert Grabsch (GER)
9	9 September	Huesca – Cerler	167.6 km (104 mi)			Leonardo Piepoli (ITA)
10	10 September	Benasque – Arcalis (Andorra)	214 km (133 mi)			Denis Menchov (RUS)
	11 September				Rest day
11	12 September	Oropesa del Mar – Algemesí	191.3 km (119 mi)			Alessandro Petacchi (ITA)
12	13 September	Algemesí – Hellín	176 km (109 mi)			Alessandro Petacchi (ITA)
13	14 September	Hellín – Torre-Pacheco	176.4 km (110 mi)			Andreas Klier
14	15 September	Puerto Lumbreras – Villacarrillo	207 km (129 mi)			Jason McCartney (USA)
15	16 September	Villacarrillo – Granada	201.4 km (125 mi)			Samuel Sánchez (ESP)
	17 September				Rest day
16	18 September	Jaén – Puertollano	161.5 km (100 mi)			Leonardo Duque (COL)
17	19 September	Ciudad Real – Talavera de la Reina	175 km (109 mi)			Daniele Bennati (ITA)
18	20 September	Talavera de la Reina – Ávila	153.5 km (95 mi)			Luis Pérez (ESP)
19	21 September	Ávila – Alto de Abantos [es]	133 km (83 mi)			Samuel Sánchez (ESP)
20	22 September	Collado Villalba – Collado Villalba	20 km (12 mi)		Individual time trial	Samuel Sánchez (ESP)
21	23 September	Rivas-Vaciamadrid – Madrid	104.2 km (65 mi)			Daniele Bennati (ITA)
	Total		3,241 km (2,014 mi)

Jersey progress

Stage (Winner)	General classification	Points Classification	Mountains Classification	Combination Classification	Team Classification
0Stage 1 (Daniele Bennati)	Daniele Bennati	Daniele Bennati	Serafín Martínez	Geoffrey Lequatre	Bouygues Télécom
0Stage 2 (Óscar Freire)	Óscar Freire	Óscar Freire		Manuel Vazquez
0Stage 3 (Paolo Bettini)				David de la Fuente	Caisse d'Epargne
0Stage 4 (Vladimir Efimkin)	Vladimir Efimkin			Vladimir Efimkin
0Stage 5 (Óscar Freire)
0Stage 6 (Óscar Freire)
0Stage 7 (Erik Zabel)
0Stage 8 (ITT) (Bert Grabsch)	Stijn Devolder			Stijn Devolder
0Stage 9 (Leonardo Piepoli)	Denis Menchov			Denis Menchov
0Stage 10 (Denis Menchov)		Paolo Bettini	Denis Menchov
0Stage 11 (Alessandro Petacchi)
0Stage 12 (Alessandro Petacchi)
0Stage 13 (Tom Stamsnijder)
0Stage 14 (Jason McCartney)
0Stage 15 (Samuel Sánchez)			Jurgen Van Goolen
0Stage 16 (Leonardo Duque)
0Stage 17 (Daniele Bennati)
0Stage 18 (Luis Pérez Rodriguez)		Daniele Bennati	Denis Menchov
0Stage 19 (Samuel Sánchez)
0Stage 20 (Samuel Sánchez)		Denis Menchov
0Stage 21 (Daniele Bennati)		Daniele Bennati

Jersey wearers when same rider is leading more than one classification

• Óscar Freire wore granate jersey on stage 2
• Daniele Bennati wore granate jersey on stage 3
• On stage 4, granate jersey should have been worn by Paolo Bettini, because he was 2nd in classification after Freire, who was also overall leader. However, world champion Bettini was allowed to ride in his usual rainbow jersey.
• Leonardo Piepoli wore white jersey on stages 5–8 and stage 11
• Vladimir Efimkin wore white jersey on stages 9–10, 12–13, 16-18
• Leonardo Piepoli led the KoM classification after stage 11 and should have worn the appropriate jersey on stage 12, but withdrew before its start; therefore, Serafín Martínez wore the mountains jersey on stages 12–14
• Cadel Evans wore white jersey on stages 14–15
• Jurgen Van Goolen wore the mountains jersey on stage 15 and on stages 19–21

Final standings

General classification

Denis Menchov in the Golden Jersey.

	Cyclist	Team	Time	UCI ProTour Points
1	Denis Menchov	RAB	80h 59' 07"	85
2	Carlos Sastre	CSC	+ 3' 31"	65
3	Samuel Sánchez	EUS	+ 3' 46"	50
4	Cadel Evans	PRL	+ 3' 56"	45
5	Ezequiel Mosquera	KGZ	+ 6' 34"	N/A
6	Vladimir Efimkin	GCE	+ 7' 07"	35
7	Vladimir Karpets	GCE	+ 8' 09"	30
8	Igor Antón	EUS	+ 8' 44"	26
9	Manuel Beltrán	LIQ	+ 9' 38"	22
10	Carlos Barredo	QSI	+ 10' 12"	19
11	Maxime Monfort	COF	+ 10' 37"	16
12	Daniel Moreno	REG	+ 13' 07"	N/A
13	Stéphane Goubert	A2R	+ 14' 13"	11
14	David López	GCE	+ 17' 36"	9
15	Oliver Zaugg	GST	+ 19' 00"	7
16	Sylvain Chavanel	COF	+ 22' 19"	5
17	Hubert Dupont	A2R	+ 29' 33"	4
18	Luis Pérez Rodriguez	ACA	+ 31' 41"	N/A
19	Chris Anker Sørensen	CSC	+ 32' 24"	2
20	Ludovic Turpin	A2R	+ 32' 39"	1

KOM Classification

	Cyclist	Team	Points
1	Denis Menchov	RAB	90
2	Jurgen Van Goolen	DSC	78
3	Carlos Sastre	CSC	69

Points Classification

	Cyclist	Team	Points
1	Daniele Bennati	LAM	147
2	Denis Menchov	RAB	135
3	Samuel Sánchez	EUS	127

Team classification

	Team	Country	Time
1	Caisse d'Epargne	Spain	242h 55' 05"
2	Euskaltel–Euskadi	Spain	+ 12' 43"
3	AG2R Prévoyance	France	+ 30' 25"

Withdrawals

Type	Stage	Rider	Team	Reason
DNF	1	Tom Danielson	Discovery Channel	Injury due to crash
DNF	3	Mathieu Claude	Bouygues Télécom	Fractured collarbone
DNS	4	Lorenzo Bernucci	T-Mobile Team	Positive doping test in 2007 Deutschland Tour
DNS	5	Sérgio Paulinho	Discovery Channel
DNF	5	Rémi Pauriol	Crédit Agricole
DNF	5	Giovanni Bernaudeau	Bouygues Télécom	Influenza
DNF	7	Alberto Fernández	Saunier Duval–Prodir	Knee pain
DNF	7	Bert Roesems	Predictor–Lotto	Crashed
DNF	9	Óscar Pereiro	Caisse d'Epargne	Gastroenteritis
DNF	9	Francesco Chicchi	Liquigas
DNF	9	Bradley McGee	Française des Jeux
DNF	9	Arkaitz Durán	Saunier Duval–Prodir	Hip pain
DNS	10	Óscar Freire	Rabobank	Concentrating on World Championships
DNF	10	Janez Brajkovič	Discovery Channel
DNF	10	Ian McLeod	Française des Jeux
DNF	10	Paolo Tiralongo	Lampre–Fondital
DNS	12	Leonardo Piepoli	Saunier Duval–Prodir	Family reasons
DNS	13	Tom Boonen	Quick-Step
DNS	13	Davide Rebellin	Gerolsteiner	Concentrating on World Championships
DNS	13	Xavier Florencio	Bouygues Télécom	Concentrating on World Championships
DNS	14	Carlos Castaño	Karpin–Galicia
DNS	14	Michael Blaudzun	Team CSC
DNF	14	Pietro Caucchioli	Crédit Agricole
DNF	14	Angelo Furlan	Crédit Agricole
DNF	14	Serafín Martínez	Karpin–Galicia
DNF	14	Josep Jufré	Predictor–Lotto	Injury due to crash
DNF	14	Dimitri Champion	Bouygues Télécom	Gastric problems
DNF	14	Jesús Hernández	Relax–GAM
DNS	15	Mickaël Delage	Française des Jeux
DNF	15	Aurélien Clerc	Bouygues Télécom	Gastric problems
DNF	15	Andreas Klier	T-Mobile Team
DNS	16	Damiano Cunego	Lampre–Fondital
DNS	17	Giuseppe Guerini	T-Mobile Team	Illness
DNS	17	Bert Grabsch	T-Mobile Team
DNS	18	László Bodrogi	Crédit Agricole
DNS	18	Allan Davis	Discovery Channel
DNS	18	Stefan Schumacher	Gerolsteiner
DNS	18	Paolo Bettini	Quick-Step–Innergetic	Concentrating on World Championships
DNS	19	Stijn Devolder	Discovery Channel
DNS	19	Andrea Tonti	Quick-Step–Innergetic